InfoEnglish is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.more...It is the national language of numerous sovereign states, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations; moreover, it is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states. It is the third-most-common native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. It is widely learned as a second language and is an official language of the European Union, many Commonwealth countries and the United Nations, as well as in many world organisations.

Mendon High School scored better in writing on the spring 2009 Michigan Merit Exam than any school in the region.They also finished second in reading and third in English language arts.Mendon High School has also won 13 state championships in football, their most recent coming over Fowler (33-0) in 2011.…

Much of the material in this album was inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, which also provided the title.It was their first album to bear an English language title.The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and number two in the US Billboard 200.…

There are also various non-English language cast albums of the musical.

In Chinese history and literature Wu Zetian was known by various names and titles.Mention of her in the English language has only increased their number.…

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter.It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.…

English-language radio drama seems to have started in the United States.A Rural Line on Education, a brief sketch specifically written for radio, aired on Pittsburgh's KDKA in 1921, according to historian Bill Jaker.…

For some this includes works by authors from Northern Ireland.The article does not include poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken.The earliest surviving English poetry, written in Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century.…

The meaning of diva is closely related to that of prima donna.The word entered the English language in the late 19th century.It is derived from the Italian noun diva, a female deity.…

There are also highly regarded British and American art songs in the English language.

The Raj set out to outlaw sati (widow-burning) and thuggee (ritual banditry) and upgrade the status of women.Schools would be established in they would teach in English language.The 1830s and 1840s, however, were not times of prosperity.…

The state of Mississippi refused the Choctaw any participation in government.Their limited understanding of the English language caused them to live in isolated groups.In addition, they were prohibited from attending any of the few institutions of higher learning, as the European Americans considered them free people of color and excluded from the segregated white institutions.…

They kept their version of the English language, though by that time they also spoke Irish.Several of them were notable contributors to literature in Irish, including Pierce Ferriter and Geoffrey Keating.…

Thurber's prose for The New Yorker and other venues included numerous humorous essays.A favorite subject, especially toward the end of his life, was the English language.…

The film was also a relative success in certain countries with large Muslim populations, such as in Egypt, where it ranked 20th overall in its box office numbers for 2004.The film remains the highest grossing non-English-language film of all time.An edited version titled The Passion Recut was released on March 11, 2005, with five minutes of the most explicit violence deleted to broaden the audience.…

The term has entered into common usage within the English language.Within the broadcasting industry it refers to when a presenter signals to the interviewee or co-presenter to stop talking due to a shortage of time.…

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages.

Television services are also used to broadcast the radio service, with local cable and satellite television operators providing the English network and occasionally some local language services free to air on their services.The English language service is also available on digital radio in the UK and Europe.Traditionally, the BBC World Service relied on shortwave broadcasts, because of its ability to overcome barriers of censorship, distance and spectrum scarcity.…

It has Spanish-language materials in addition to English-language ones.

The Child Ballads were published in five volumes between 1882 and 1898.They are a major contribution to the study of English-language folk music.…

According to Malmuth, the name was adopted from the cover design of his book Gambling Theory and Other Topics where the equation 2+2=4 was illustrated with card pictures.In addition, many of its titles are now being translated into many non-English languages.…